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SubRant

By Catherine Lynn & James Fryer

SubRant: a podcast wherein Catherine and James, two wildly (mildly) creative and cosmopolitan (provincial) Parisians (Phoenicians), wander in and out of conversations about art and other stuff that annoys them. SubRant Website
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Episode #49: A Boring Podcast

SubRantMay 31, 2022

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Episode #86: "Luxury Vinyl"

Episode #86: "Luxury Vinyl"

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Houses and 'Performance Art' suck but dogs are awesome

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Nov 25, 202329:48
Episode #85: Artists & Thieves

Episode #85: Artists & Thieves

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Stolen, painted over, and exploited: the many horrible lives of modern 'art'

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Sep 21, 202329:33
Episode #84: Not So S3XY

Episode #84: Not So S3XY

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Muddy Hippies, the true origin of "Prompt Engineer", and ridiculous rich white men

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  • X - the most powerful letter...
  • Burning Man
  • What should a modern Hippie drive?
  • "Nordstrom was in my soul"
  • "Where does the water come from?"
  • "Goodwill for bikes"
  • Offer-Up sucks
  • Fakesquiat t-shirts
  • The Lexus of fakes
  • Scion xB
  • Trump mug shot = Zoolander
  • Trump took the cookies
  • X is useless
  • "Twatter"
  • "You need better notes"
  • Elon Musk = Howard Hughes
  • S3XY
  • He's bad at jokes
  • Prompt Engineer
  • Large Language Model explained
  • Reddit explained
  • Adversarial prompting
  • SubRant gets spiritual
  • Anyway...
Sep 04, 202336:18
Episode #83: The Orlando Museum of Fake Art
Sep 01, 202329:18
Episode #82: Klimt Goes to Yellowstone

Episode #82: Klimt Goes to Yellowstone

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SubRant disembowels an article about an unfinished Klimt and James goes on vacation

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Jul 24, 202331:02
Episode #81: Recycling Economies and Dead Artists

Episode #81: Recycling Economies and Dead Artists

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A new show for a dead artist, art vandals go to Vatican jail, and Apple reinvents Virtual Reality. Oh, and circular economies.

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Jun 16, 202329:34
Episode #80: The Art Judges

Episode #80: The Art Judges

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Prom wear, vomiting Keurigs, Brutalist 'art', and the questionable artistic judgement of the Supreme Court

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May 19, 202334:44
Episode #79: Ancient Artifacts: Anthropology or Morbid Fascination?

Episode #79: Ancient Artifacts: Anthropology or Morbid Fascination?

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Even with no f***s to give, James and Catherine fill 38 minutes with movies and mummies before pondering humanity's precipice and agreeing that most art (other than "Jaws" props) is disposable. 

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Apr 21, 202338:53
Episode #78: Good Enough to Steal?

Episode #78: Good Enough to Steal?

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James and Catherine dip their toes into hope before tackling plagiarism vs appropriation in pop-art

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Apr 14, 202336:38
Episode #77: David vs Florida

Episode #77: David vs Florida

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SubRant touches on 3-D printers and lauds Chewy before breaking down the rise of Chinese apps, fear of a marble penis and “loving them some Google”.


Show Notes

Apr 07, 202336:17
Episode #76: Memories of Metro Center

Episode #76: Memories of Metro Center

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SubRant discusses aliens, Valley Metro Lite Rail, public art and real estate with realtor Andrew Richwine

  • 00:07 - "We do aliens" 
  • 00:30 - Welcome Andrew Richwine, Realtor, The Tribe - Keller Williams 
  • 01:45 - Andrew's story 
  • 03:40 - Green energy AND Lite Rail can move 1500 people every 3 minutes!
  • 06:30 - Valley Metro App
  • 09:22 - Lite Rail expansion projects and memories of Metro Center 
  • 13:45 - Biking from Phoenix to Tempe! 
  • 15:10 - Bad "flips" and "Where B&B?"
  • 19:25 - Worst client? We don't do those.
  • 23:00 - Preparing for a listing
  • 26:05 - Photographing your old house 
  • 31:00 - Tribe Takeover and gimbal gaff!
  • 32:40 - SubRant Podcast is persistent
  • 37:22 - Lite Rail art installations
  • 43:00 - Rail connections = community connections 
  • 45:05 - Keeping community businesses afloat
  • 47:55 - Comic book stores, sewing machines, enlightenment, and sleep
  • 52:00 - Lite Rail "honor system"
  • 54:10 - First Friday is still happening?
  • 55:40 - Songbird Coffee House
  • 56:50 - Favorite art spaces 1 & 2
  • 57:50 - Buying houses near the lite rail
  • 01:01:36 - Photo vampire needed 
Mar 17, 202301:02:37
Episode #74: Puppy Down!

Episode #74: Puppy Down!

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SubRant co-hosts get no credit for coining AI job title, so they defined "sweeping the floor" while reveling in the shards of a Balloon Dog. 

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Mar 03, 202327:03
Episode #73: Jesus Wins the Super Bowl February 17, 2023

Episode #73: Jesus Wins the Super Bowl February 17, 2023

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This week on SubRant we question copyright law, search for Banksy's missing freezer, and go to war over a Super Bowl ad.

SHOW NOTES

 * 00:15 - Catherine gets "topic ambushed"!

 * 00:35 - Hypothetical: Copyright "all or nothing"

 * 06:01 - Voting for a shorter copyright timeframe!

 * 07:00 - Can't remake "Babylon 5", so watch "The Expanse"

 * 07:30 - "Great ideas just go off and die because big corporations hold the copyright."

 * 07:50 - Chihuahua update: 10 pounds!

 * 08:45 - "Valentines Day Mascara"

 * 09:30 - Banksy website image

 * 10:00 - The freezer was removed! Twice!

 * 11:15 - Leave street art and Valentines Day alone!

 * 13:15 - Cats, dogs, and "Velcro"

 * 14:05 - Super Bowl depression

 * 15:35 - James cinched win for Chiefs!

 * 15:58 - The divisive Jesus commercial

 * 16:40 - Catherine prefers beer commercials

 * 17:30 - Responding to confrontational imagery

 * 17:42 - "Human" (Rag n Bone Man)

 * 18:03 - "Jesus loves the people you hate"

 * 19:15 - Both sides of the aisle lost their minds!

 * 20:43 - "He Gets Us" has an agenda!

 * 23:30 - James defines fascism

 * 24:40 - Two fascist households

 * 26:00 - No time for the twisted

 * 27:35 - Just take a nice message at "face value"

 * 29:00 - A "bad take" or calling out a "slippery slope"?

Feb 17, 202329:41
Episode #72: January Happened

Episode #72: January Happened

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James and Catherine reconvene to ponder Twitter, fawn over vintage Legos, and marvel at 3-D printers while saving the planet using freeze dried coffee.

SHOW NOTES

 - 00:20 - Plaything formerly known as Twitter

 - 00:50 - Hello Mastodon!

 - 01:45 - Algorithms are (21st century) life

 - 02:30 - Lego redux and 3-D printers

 - 03:35 - Fancy hot glue gun (AKA 3-D printer)

 - 07:25 - Paraglider drops in, smashes house

 - 10:50 - Coffee is ruining the earth

 - 12:28 - Lifecycle of a coffee bean

 - 15:40 - Landfills are for sequestering

 - 17:55 - "Dose" is key and freeze-dried wins!

 - 19:20 - James saves the environment, one cup of Keurig at a time!

 - 21:55 - How about just drinking less coffee?

 - 22:28 - Gas stoves fuel culture war

 - 24:00 - Most of Florida passes (on) gas

 - 25:05 - Induction is magic!

 - 25:45 - The Nigerian AI artist reimagining a stylish old age

 - 26:30 - "Fashion Show For Seniors" via AI

 - 27:30 - Finally, the fingers look like fingers!

 - 28:25 - AI comes through (again) as creative tool!

Feb 03, 202329:49
Episode #71: Call 1-900-Twitter Today!

Episode #71: Call 1-900-Twitter Today!

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Twitter’s “Meltdown” sets a festive mood as our SubRant co-hosts continue their AI deep-dive via ArtStation protests and opt-out image training before going to war over Christmas!

Show Notes

00:05 - Moods and (tile) meltdowns

01:15 - The “bots” have spoken!

02:15 - “Are we having free speech yet?”

02:45 - Dear Elon, links are the web…

03:15-  Just dial “1-900-Twitter”

04:35 - A CEO fall-guy?

06:10 - Tesla, SpaceEx, Star Link

07:18 - NFT’s are flying off the shelves!

08:45 - It’s only a head-shot!

10:45 - Real tough guys wear Aviator glasses

12:15 - Drive-by Vegan burger

12:50 - Artists Protest After ArtStation Features AI-Generated Images https://www.kotaku.com.au/2022/12/artists-protest-after-artstation-features-ai-generated-images/

13:45 - “Explore” the flood-plain

14:05 - Artstation Website https://www.artstation.com/?sort_by=community

14:55 - Your lane is over there!

15:10 - Art station makes it worse? https://www.kotaku.com.au/2022/12/artstation-responds-to-ai-controversy-makes-things-worse/

16:05 - Opt-out, opt-in?

16:30 - Issues, issues, issues https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/12/stability-ai-plans-to-let-artists-opt-out-of-stable-diffusion-3-image-trainxxing/

18:17 - Was it doxing?

20:18 - “We’re all re-compilers!”

21:12 - What’s your definition of free speech?

22:43 - Christmas soap opera

22:59 - Riffusion’s AI generates music from text using visual sonograms https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/12/riffusions-ai-generates-music-from-text-using-visual-sonograms/

24:26 - Six prompts yield similar results, all bad

25:04 - “Gayatri Mantra” AI-style

25:57 - “One Minute After New Year’s Eve”

26:22 - Battlestar Galactica finale disconnect

27:31 - Costco membership woes? https://www.thestreet.com/retailers/costco-plans-to-raise-its-membership-prices

28:30 - Christmas every 4 years? NOPE

29:00 - Blame SubRant!

29:50 - Durable Medical Equipment Festivities

30:00 - Wrapping dog presents!

Dec 19, 202230:51
Episode #70: A.I. Art History

Episode #70: A.I. Art History

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SubRant cohosts touch on eyeballs and pie while drafting their own conspiracy theories and pondering the place of AI in art history.

SHOW NOTES

 - 00:15 - Cream pie and a left eye

 - 01:15 - No turkey, no salmon!

 - 02:30 - Sweet words at Thanksgiving

 - 03:25 - Uncles and conspiracies

 - 05:05 - Crazy takes a "right"?

 - 06:18 -  Twitter chugs along

 - 06:55 - Swastikas are not in vogue

 - 08:00 - James unveils a conspiracy theory!

 - 08:45 - How Is AI Changing Art History?

 - 09:55 - Up in arms about detachment

 - 11:00 - Directing AI or minions, what's the difference?

 - 13:15 - Circuitous discourse on historical bias

 - 14:00 - Modern Dream: How Refik Anadol Is Using Machine Learning and NFTs to Interpret MoMA's Collection

 - 15:08 - Hold the hallucinations!

 - 16:05 - Are we all just machines?

 - 18:50 - "I see cubism"

 - 19:50 - No talk of the show disappoints

 - 21:30 - All ones and zeroes are the same

 - 22:30 - Digital vs Physical

 - 24:00 - The art of James

 - 26:00 - Connection without nostalgia

 - 27:45 - Mash-ups create new ideas

 - 28:30 - AI is part of art history

Dec 02, 202229:09
Episode #69: Here's A Turkey!
Nov 22, 202228:60
Episode #68: E-Bikes Flameout

Episode #68: E-Bikes Flameout

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James and Catherine view a Christie's art auction and the banning of E-bikes through the lens of classism, while questioning the goals of AI

SHOW NOTES

 - 02:10 - James and the GIANT bike!

 - 03:00 - Finally, a good Oreo cookie?

 - 04:55 - Update: Christie's auction

 - 07:00 - "They were all bangers"

 - 07:30 - Thought we banned "art-speak"

 - 07:55 - Through the lens of classism

 - 09:00 - Swollen lithium batteries = havoc

 - 11:20 - Bent iPhone battery ignites!

 - 12:52 - "Lithium likes to burn a lot"

 - 13:34 - Lovingly roasting Samsung

 - 15:45 - James solves E-bike storage issue

 - 16:50 - PSA: Risky in-app browsers

 - 18:20 - inappbrowser.com

 - 18:50 - Just stop clicking on ad links

 - 20:45 - Crypto setback, so wait 5 years

 - 21:55 - What's the AI goal?

 - 23:00 - Triggered by ultrasound AI

 - 23:45 - Judy Schweibert won & AZ midterm update

 - 26:30 - Where are the visionaries?

 - 27:05 - AI steamrolls, but who sets standards?

 - 29:00 - James predicts break-through tech

 - 29:55 - Runway re-run (next episode)

 - 31:00 - Blown away (in a good way)

Nov 14, 202231:09
Episode #67: AI Tsunami

Episode #67: AI Tsunami

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James and Catherine unload on new phones, hyperlink irritants, and copyright restrictions before uncovering a tsunami of AI image generator talent

SHOW NOTES

 - 00:03 - Late (again) for Halloween

 - 00:35 - Old people get new phones

 - 01:40 - Hell is in the link

 - 03:10 - "Free your Apple news"

 - 04:20 - Chihuahua eats AI "homework"

 - 05:55 - James dabbles and hits gold!

 - 07:30 - AI vs. living artists

 - 09:15 - Copyright doesn't protect your vibe

 - 10:08 - "Always room for robots!"

 - 12:20 - Are they coming for all of our jobs?

 - 12:58 - Copyright primer

 - 14:45 - Is there protection for AI art?

 - 16:00 - Legal vs. moral, plus trademark

 - 17:40 - AI advancement moving fast!

 - 18:20 - Removing references to living artists makes it harder (but not really)

 - 19:50 - The value of knowing

 - 21:45 - How Much "Art" Can There Be In Artificial Intelligence?

 - 22:52 - Second place winner speaks out

 - 24:24 - Who really owns the creative output?

 - 25:40 - Save time, just draw it!

 - 26:05 - AI selfie filter fail

 - 26:50 - "Draw Anyone" (with three arms?)

 - 28:15 - Backwards AI gets snarky!

 - 28:42 - Selfie roast

 - 30:55 - Spicing up a "too nice" internet?

 - 31:27 - James appeals to human kindness, then recants

Oct 31, 202232:28
Episode #66: Seeing with Cezanne

Episode #66: Seeing with Cezanne

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Catherine and James riff on Cezanne, plead for curatorial intelligence, and dismiss "Process Art"

SHOW NOTES

 - 00:10 - No disarray here!

 - 01:05 - "Kay-enne" got too hot for Adidas

 - 02:20 - Flat Earth AI Zombies push a button

 - 04:24 - James is a bit of a troll

 - 05:24 - "Wait! We get a lot of hate?"

 - 06:35 - SubRant t-shirts not disappointing

 - 08:00 - We see, therefore, Cezanne

 - 10:05 - Static, roving, is it that deep?

 - 11:00 - Teardown of the stare-down

 - 12:41 - Impressionism interrupted

 - 14:00 - Plea for curatorial common sense

 - 15:30 - From Impressionism to Midwifery

 - 16:10 - Addressing Western-centrism

 - 18:00 - Distortion and evisceration gone wild

 - 18:35 - "Cezanne, I'm glad he did it!"

 - 19:40 - Imagining Cezanne's process-timeline

 - 20:40 - Process + end product = art?

 - 22:00 - Thinking of Da Vinci

 - 23:05 - "The work is the art. and everything else is a prelude"

 - 24:00 - If the "process" is also art, how does this apply to AI generated images?

 - 24:30 - Stay tuned for more AI

Oct 25, 202224:30
Episode #65: Eve of (Art) Destruction

Episode #65: Eve of (Art) Destruction

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Catherine and James laud a MET facade, but trash "art speak", selling dead people's collections, cold soup, and burning ‘art'.

SHOW NOTES

 - 00:03 - "Constant state of bicycle shopping"

 - 01:47 - James is "The Surly Straggler"

 - 03:05 - Ding your bell, it's "Biking Story-time!"

 - 04:06 - Good morning, or not!

 - 05:00 - James freaks out road bikers

 - 05:45 - Walking into walls & delayed synaptic response

 - 06:27 - MET public art (not MOMA)

 - 08:40 - "Gilt & Guilt" or "Ownership & Superficiality"?

 - 10:15 - Artist's words versus "art-speak"

 - 11:09 - James bans "curatorial studies"

 - 12:17 - Appreciating a facade (on a facade)

 - 12:30 - The power of Paul Allen

 - 13:26 - "So, regular people can't buy art?"

 - 15:30 - "Norm" or not, just buy what you like!

 - 16:48 - Back to the museums to raise value!

 - 19:00 - Van Gogh plus soup is good art

 - 19:15 - SubRant Throwback

 - 19:35 - "Just Stop Oil" (painting)

 - 21:00 - Gone haywire on "The Haywain"

 - 24:50 - Hirst kicks off his own "Burning Man"

 - 26:30 - "The Haunting of Word Soup"

 - 29:03 - SubRant Throwback (Koons)

 - 29:08 - Nod to DeGrazia'z taxation protest

 - 31:10 - Maximize that carbon footprint!

 - 33:15 - Dust in the wind

Oct 17, 202233:15
Episode #64: "They always go for the ceilings"

Episode #64: "They always go for the ceilings"

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James and Catherine "nerd rant" about tech platforms, Minotaur teeth, and the curious trend of whole house doodling.

SHOW NOTES

 - 00:05 - "Old people don"t need new phones"

 - 00:20 - "Prey" panoramic followup

 - 02:00 - 300 year evolution of "The Predator"

 - 03:05 - Hollywood butchers technology

 - 04:20 - James repos quote, shoves Plato off cliff

 - 05:05 - Google nerd-rant - Stadia: DONE

 - 07:00 - Treading water with Search and Mail

 - 09:30 -  Hey YouTube, remember Flickr?

 - 10:27 - Silly Google, Docs is for kids!

 - 11:00 - Lame VR and the developers who  won't use it

 - 12:00 - Instagram hack!

 - 13:07 - Secure your passwords and don"t use Facebook log-in

 - 14:35 - "Mr. Doodle does" wall drawings!

 - 15:18 - Gettin a superficial Haring vibe

 - 16:45 - Buys house and doodles it!

 - 17:13 - "Graffiti Spaghetti" for lunch?

 - 18:15 - Do doodles need color?

 - 19:30 - Mr. Doodle freestyle

 - 20:22 - Revisiting Polina Rayko, self-taught Ukrainian artist

 - 22:36 - James is a doodler

 - 23:10 - Ron's House: Minotaur Head And Lion Is Discovered In Rented Birkenhead Flat

 - 24:45 - Nerds contemplate minotaur teeth and other points of fiction

 - 26:25 - Put some effort into your art!

 - 29:40 - "They always go for the ceilings"

 - 30:50 - Doodle camouflage

 - 31:13 - Halloween t-shirt plug!

Oct 10, 202232:28
Episode #63: A Story of How South Korea Broke The Internet

Episode #63: A Story of How South Korea Broke The Internet

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Catherine and James waffle on selling their cars while dissecting potential changes to S. Korean net neutrality and crowning RM as the best art critic!

SHOW NOTES

 - 00:05 - Selling our cars?

 - 02:35 - Forget new tires, just buy a new car!

 - 04:10 - Hybrid Maverick: The "exciting" choice

 - 07:10 - The biggest issue of the week! (Or not)

 - 07:35 - James explains net neutrality and data access fees

 - 08:55 - No more "Baby Shark or BTS" scares Catherine

 - 09:30 - S. Korean ISPs want to charge more, James breaks it down!

 - 12:12 - Just don't interrupt Catherine's Korean content!

 - 14:00 - James calls out a "dick move" and rights a "slippery slope"

 - 15:35 - "The world is coming to an end and we're all going to be isolated"

 - 16:45 - A usage fee bill from Argentina?

 - 18:00 - SubRant saves the Internet!

 - 18:58 - Appeal to S. Korean legislators to not mess with success!

 - 19:50 - Temporarily annoyed with "art critic" RM?

 - 21:45 - "RM is the Liz Cheney of the art world!"

 - 22:45 - James implements a usage fee to deliver thoughts to your head

 - 23:30 - Bad analogies, free speech, and TV

 - 25:15 - The expensive neighborhood road

 - 26:34 - A soothing perspective

 - 28:10 - Territorial women's wear (for a new Arizona reality)

Sep 26, 202228:31
Episode #62: Flat Earth AI Zombies

Episode #62: Flat Earth AI Zombies

SHOW THEME

Catherine and James eviscerate flat earth theory and the zombified appetite for "alternate realities" while predicting the future of AI "art".

SHOW NOTES

 - 00:10 - Honey Bear's rescue story!

 - 01:30 - James describes a real dog

 - 02:10 - New format flop

 - 02:30 - TikTok Flat Earth hilarity

 - 03:45 - She gotta be trolling!

 - 05:10 - Reason begone, here comes the wacky!

 - 05:45 - Ignorance or boredom? Who cares!

 - 06:15 - Stupidity rises like cream on social media

 - 07:05 - Does the appetite for "alternate realities" affect how we see art?

 - 07:45 - Colorado State Fair vs. AI generated art

 - 08:05 - AI image generator: Midjourney

 - 10:00 - "Hand of the artist" is now "your mind"!

 - 11:20 - Riffing from Hudson River, but did anyone know (or care?)

 - 14:30 - Questions remain re: digital image sourcing and "sampling"

 - 17:49 - Image synthesis via latent diffusion

 - 18:25 - Search yourself (and your art) LAION-5B

 - 21:10 - Robots are coming for your creativity!

 - 22:40 - Put me in your database and re-use my work!

 - 23:20 - Severed head Phoestivus

 - 26:33 - Interest equals value!

 - 27:50 - "Watching the death of artistry..."

 - 28:20 - Art communities ban AI generated images

 - 29:43 - James looks into an AI crystal ball

 - 31:20 - At last, James is correct!

Sep 16, 202231:25
Episode #61: Chromophobia: A Beginners Guide

Episode #61: Chromophobia: A Beginners Guide

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Catherine and James discuss the "greatest conspiracy in ancient art" while  summarily dismissing Minimalism, Architecture, and Modern Design.

SHOW NOTES

 - 00:10 - Cohost identifies as chromophobic, but not really?

 - 00:48 - The Greatest Conspiracy In Ancient Art

 - 01:05 - Breaking news: Ancient monochromatic statues are just faded

 - 02:14 - Natural weathering takes a toll

 - 02:43 - The "art historian elites" object!

 - 03:40 - Restoration erases patina and the passage of time

 - 05:05 - Refurbish recoil and "The Archer"

 - 06:10 - Nobody paints Baby in a corner!

 - 07:15 - "Ancient ancient" color gap

 - 11:07 - Going mad with color!

 - 12:37 - Clean away the goth (and forget Plato)!

 - 13:24 - High Renaissance ghostly minimalism

 - 14:05 - Michelangelo was the first Western abstract artist!

 - 15:09 - "Hard no" on "nipple tattoo"

 - 16:04 - Black, white, and grey = garbage palette

 - 18:15 - James has a purple door (but it's actually red)

 - 20:25 - "Visual stillness" vs design degradation

 - 21:05 - Architectural stasis

 - 23:05 - Arcosanti

 - 24:38 - "Modern humans are just boring"

 - 25:40 - Arcosanti bell loses a dangle

 - 26:15 - Christopher shows up and ends the show

Sep 05, 202226:25
Episode #60: Mannequin Madness

Episode #60: Mannequin Madness

Show Themes

 - All kinds of drought

 - PC Gaming

 - Show note PSA

 - Instagram hate

 - Mannequin Madness

 - Prey follow-up

 - Huge conspiracy next episode!

Show Notes

 - 00:20 - Cohost identifies as the “Lake Mead” of emotional support

 - 01:00 - Abbreviated Southern California cringe https://www.axios.com/2022/08/24/california-drought-crisis-water-waste-celebrities

 - 01:46 - So many Kardashians, so little water

 - 02:15 - Stallone (and 1599 others) exceed water usage

 - 02:20 - “Let Them Eat Koi” revisited! https://www.subrantpodcast.com/episode_0048_eat-koi.html

 - 05:20 - Thirty years of creeping water shortages

 - 06:30 - “Can you spell privilege?”

 - 07:50 - PlayStation sued in UK, but why? https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-62631533

 - 08:45 - James puts gaming in perspective

 - 10:00 - “What’s the point? That was my point!” (Huh?)

 - 10:30 - Console and platform subrant

 - 13:30 - Listeners spared, contact James for more!

 - 14:40 - Show notes PSA: Scroll, read, links, follow!

 -  - Twitter: https://twitter.com/SubRantPodcast

 -  - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/subrantpodcast/

 -  - TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@subrantpodcast

 - 16:00 - I wear my (denim) sunglasses on Instagram!

 - 18:23 - Idiot “feather ruffling” yields more idiocy

 - 20:30 - Contemplating Plato (or not)

 - 21:00 - Thank you “Mannequin Madness” for the “butts”! https://www.mannequinmadness.com

 - 22:20 - Triggered by a plastic belly button, please send help! (It wasn’t the belly button)

 - 22:36 - “Prey” follow-up

 - 23:12 - “Predator was a better action movie, Prey was a better film” (Plato)

 - 25:15 - Badass, not revisionist

 - 27:20 - Muddying up the “mud scene”

 - 29:00 - The “no subtitle” Predator-Prey thread

 - 31:10 - Trying everything or barely trying?

Aug 29, 202231:59
Episode #59: Watch Prey and Your Cat

Episode #59: Watch Prey and Your Cat

SHOW THEMES

 - Prey (2022) and Predator (1987)

 - High tech litter boxes

 - AI generated images vs editorial illustration

 - Again with the dead cow head

SHOW NOTES

 - 00:18 - Let's both not talk about the movie you didn't see

 - 00:58 - Newsflash: There is no "Prey 1"

 - 02:00 - Catherine answers a citizenship question

 - 03:00 - Streaming negates need for movie theaters

 - 04:15 - James recommends "Prey" (2022), revisits "Predator" (1987)

 - 07:18 - No spoilers here, just a Hollywood ending

 - 09:35 - "Predator" is a better action film, "Prey" is a better movie

 - 10:47 - Trolls in a twist

 - 12:15 - No subtitles for "French Klingon"

 - 13:40 - Cat poop in AI headlines

 - 14:20 - Cat litter is incredibly exciting?

 - 16:00 - Cats openly mock litter box technology

 - 18:00 - Nothing about this is AI, so just look at you cat

 - 20:35 - AI-generated digital art spurs debate about News illustrations

 - 21:50 - James breaks down AI

 - 24:25 - Comparing editorial illustration to AI generated images (DALL-E)

 - 26:57 - Is this just image sampling or will it evolve creatively?

 - 28:00 - The hubris of overcoming bias

 - 29:20 - Is your bias really your perspective?

 - 31:50 - Random connections generate new ideas

 - 33:02 - James leaves, Catherine talks to herself

 - 34:15 - We probably shouldn't ignore DALL-E!

 - 35:05 - Plastic wins at our demise!

 - 36:00 - In: AI all the way! Out: dead cow heads!

Aug 12, 202236:21
Episode #58: The Missing Milagros

Episode #58: The Missing Milagros

SHOW THEMES

 - Netflix v Hulu

 - Lalapalooza

 - New mannequin

 - De-globalization in the arts

 - "Old Masters" on caring walls

 - Milagros and street art

SHOW NOTES

 - 00:30 - Swapping Hulu for Netflix (for now)

 - 01:10 - "HobiPalooza" soothed an aching soul!

 - 01:45 - Shower, tea, phone off for J-Hope!

 - 02:20 - James is an English teacher

 - 03:07 - Better K-drama translation?

 - 04:15 - Ghost stories more believable than the news?

 - 05:00 - James makes Hulu recommendations

 -  - Save Yourselves

 -  - Love and Monsters

 -  - I Love Lucy

 -  - People of Earth

 - 06:45 - Town of "Fish Kill" doesn't  kill fish

 - 07:50 - Mannequin mocking

 - 10:10 - Who needs a head?

 - 10:40 - Insane cyclists of Scotland

 - 11:45 - De-globalization Hits the Art World (or does it?)

 - 12:22 - Unwinding vs fracturing vs bullshit

 - 14:25 - Art: Means to an end vs end in itself?

 - 14:55 - Just say "Plato"

 - 16:10 - Art blockbuster shows, niche museums, community focus

 - 17:15 - Collection sell-off debate

 - 21:45 - Deaccessioning? Just say "selling"!

 - 22:30 - Catherine gets emotional about art preservation

 - 23:15 - James subrants on the lies and lies of the artworld!

 - 25:00 - 30-year China trend?

 - 26:40 - "The 'China-nization' of Hong Kong"

 - 27:00 - SF MOMA Mural, Healing and Milagros

 - 27:12 - 100 Day Project Celebrating Essential Workers 100 Days Action's Art for Essential Workers

 - 27:55 - Suenos Imports

 - 29:27 - "Mural-ized" street art

 - 30:15 - Hope comes full circle: Meaning of Milagros

 - 31:17 - Must start with cats!

 - 31:35 - I'm a dog person

Aug 01, 202231:35
Episode #57: Cracker Jack Buddhas

Episode #57: Cracker Jack Buddhas

SHOW THEMES

 - Van Gogh "hidden" portrait

 - Secret mirrors and Cracker Jack Buddhas

 - AI image generators

SHOW NOTES

 - 00:38 - Van Gogh portrait found behind "Head of a Peasant Woman"

 - 01:08 - James makes a case for "peasant-core"

 - 01:35 - Random x-rays, but why?

 - 02:02 - "I thought the painting was depressing"

 - 02:25 - Breaking down curator boredom

 - 03:12 - Impasto faux pas... Rembrandt not Van Gogh!

 - 04:45 - It's simple - canvass is expensive.

 - 06:12 - Van Gogh was "a broke ass painter"

 - 06:30 - Buddha Buddha on the wall. How did you get there?

 - 07:25 - "Mystery purchase" at Tucson Gem Show

 - 08:12 - Cracker Jack enlightenment

 - 10:45 - Are there more mysteries in plain sight? Probable not.

 - 11:56 - All the kids are doing it? (AI image generators)

 - 13:30 - Why AI? It's not art, it's a tool https://www.craiyon.com

 - 14:20 - Joan of Arc eating ice cream

 - 15:43 - Georgia O'Keefe painted cats?

 - 18:10 - Cats in the "style" of Damien Hurst look like Laurel Burch https://www.laurelburch.com

 - 19:08 - James is DALL-E wait-listed

 - 21:00 - Unintended scarcity?

 - 22:28 - Generating "fun spaghetti"

 - 22:50 - "Nefarious" experimentation yielded freakish results!

 - 24:00 - "Hack-a-thon" and curated image database

 - 25:40 - Let's just leave it!

Jul 24, 202225:42
Episode #56: Interview with Grace Habib of Shop Refugee

Episode #56: Interview with Grace Habib of Shop Refugee

SHOW NOTES

 - Grace Habib of Shop Refugee part of GoTen

 - Grace started as an English teacher with GoTen

 - Seamstress volunteers wanted to start Sewing class started 2021

 - Grace shifted from English teaching to running Shop Refugee full time

 - Stared by rebranded Shop Refugee

 - Expanded classes and has its own workshop (20 person max)

 - Loving Covers helped out with material donations in the beginning

 - Sourcing material locally

 - City Serve (Amazon, Walmart, and CostCo returns)

 - Sheer fabric = Scrunchy

 - Mesh netting = produce bags

 - Environmentally friendly process

 - 95% of sales goes to seamstress

 - Business owners now coming to Shop Refugee for seamstresses

 - Noggin Boss

 - Seamstresses are contract working and can work at home at their pace

 - Bead trade of Murano

 - Welcome Cookie!

 - Grace rents out her wedding arch and a mogul is born!

 - Grace's marketing side hustle

 - We need to support more refugees

 - Parolees from Afghanistan

 - Refugee is a legal status

 - Spread the world!

 - The Rock as the model

 - Requests welcome!

 - Sewing machines are awesome

 - Farmer's markets

 - World Refugee Day Phoenix College

 - Retail stores:

 - - Cultivate coffee

 - - Gather Phoenix

 - - SBC Book Store

 - Phoenix eats batteries and tires!

 - Success stories from the class

 - Rapha House

 - Donations (fabric and thread)!

 - Aug 18 - Meeting for volunteers

 - Insha'Allah

Jul 14, 202240:45
Episode #55: Contemplating Namjooning

Episode #55: Contemplating Namjooning

SHOW NOTES

 - 00:15 - Tired of "adulting"

 - 00:45 - Disregard SubRant dating advice

 - 01:40 - The Met is not MOMA!

 - 02:00 - Catherine doesn't listen to James!

 - 02:50 - SubRant stickers buy a Lamborghini

 - 03:20 - Episode 55 is important (?)

 - 03:59 - All politics are local

 - 04:45 - Hospitals waste time and plastic (and lives)

 - 06:10 - Pink plastic (from one room) fills the dump!

 - 07:15 - James has a suggestion for hospital performance art

 - 07:45 - What would happen if we stopped using plastic?

 - 08:35 - Hypothetical plastic recycling

 - 09:53 - Sequester plastic so it doesn't kill us

 - 11:10 - Glass water bottles kind of suck

 - 12:15 - Glass is no picnic either

 - 14:05 - Conquering the world in just 70 years

 - 14:34 - Hard pass on intelligence and sacrifice

 - 15:45 - Can't grow your own in Phoenix

 - 16:30 - James has faith in good engineering

 - 17:35 - Fewer cows would be nice

 - 18:40 - Thirteen uses to offset carbon footprint

 - 19:30 - Baffled by K-pop and BTS

 - 20:15 - Kim Nam Joon, art enthusiast

 - 20:25 - RM fans flood art museum

 - 22:10 - Is it just a passing fad?

 - 24:17 - James gives it one shrug (WTF?)

 - 26:45 - Who is on your list of favorite modern artists?

 - 29:00 - Vicarious expansion via Instagram

 - 30:00 - Contemplating "Namjooning"

 - 30:40 - James wants a study, but is it necessary?

 - Weverse

 - 32:50 - Moving to Italy but visiting ROK

 - 33:29 - Fingers crossed!

Jul 08, 202233:29
Episode #54: Interview with Judy Schwiebert and Jeanne Casteen

Episode #54: Interview with Judy Schwiebert and Jeanne Casteen

We Speak With SHOW TOPICS
  • The disfunction in the Arizona legislature
  • The problems Arizonians are actually facing
  • Fighting the wave of extreme legislation from The American Legislative Exchange Council
  • The distraction of the "Culture Wars"
  • The trajectory of Womens Rights in America
  • Let's do better
  • The Arizona State Budget and the 5.3 billion dollar surplus
  • School vouchers
  • School Choice - we already have it!
  • Super majority for voter initiative
  • Ice cream vs cake
Jul 01, 202236:56
Episode #53: Artist of the week: Frode Bolhuis

Episode #53: Artist of the week: Frode Bolhuis

SHOW TOPICS

 - Earth vs. Mars

 - Top 5, No Surprise!

 - Trail Stories

 - Instagram Artist Sells High

 - Frode Bolhuis

SHOW NOTES

 - 00:15 - A better world or Mars

 - 00:50 - Rovers with no soul

 - 01:15 - Half of global art sales, but is the art interesting?

 - 01:30 - L.A. makes "Top 5" art city list

 - 02:15 - California, Mars, what's the difference?

 - 02:50 - New York, LA, San Francisco, Chicago, Miami

 - 03:50 - "Bananas, duct tape, invisible art" in Miami

 - 04:05 - Is the "creative center" really in Seoul?

 - 05:00 - Has NY lost its "artsy" edge?

 - 05:40 - "The Getty" ruined a biking trail

 - 06:20 - James gets dumped (on the worst trail ini Phoenix)!

 - 08:00 - A wash and a boulder

 - 08:50 - Tom Thumb trashed toenails

 - 09:30 - Underrepresenting women in art

 - 11:00 - North Mountain in the dark

 - 12:20 - Strava tracks your stuff?

 - 14:31 - Social media intelligence test?

 - 15:35 - "I Am Not a Robot" tests don't care if you're a robot

 - 16:50 - Instagram artist makes good!

 - 17:35 - Liking the still lifes and "Godzilla"

 - 19:40 - Tiny figures make me happy! Frode Bolhuis

 - 21:28 - Human form, human psyche

 - 23:14 - Kinda like Pinocchio?

 - 24:04 - Intuitive Alarm!

 - 25:30 - It takes this village (to make interesting people)

 - 26:05 - Daily creativity

 - 27:35 - Actually discussed art!

 - 28:02 - We're both done!

Jun 24, 202228:04
Episode #52: Interview with Tim Sprague

Episode #52: Interview with Tim Sprague

SHOW TOPICS

 - Tim Sprague - Real Estate Developer - Phoenix, AZ

SHOW NOTES

 - 00:10 - Welcome Tim Sprague!

 - 01:00 - Tim's story: "I got thrown into the deep end of the pool!"

 - 03:00 - Prime interest rate comparison provides perspective

 - 04:19 - Crazier than the 1980's!

 - 04:27 - COVID, world economy, supply chain issues, Ukraine

 - 05:15 - Tim is "pro-Phoenix", but it took awhile

 - 05:45 - Waiting for cold tap water...

 - 08:00 - Desert biome sunsets are the best!

 - 10:43 - Courage, school of hard knocks, transforming community

 - 11:40 - Applying lessons from bigger urban centers

 - 12:15 - Cultivating arts, culture, and design into buildings

 - 12:30 - Oasis on Grand - Affordable Housing for Artists

 - 15:00 - Funding affordable living and political challenges

 - 15:55 - Stratified Economic Housing

 - 17:20 - Greenfield development vs in-fill projects

 - 18:30 - Urban sprawl taxes community infrastructure

 - 20:00 - Walkable communities, neighbors, being known

 - 22:00 - Good design beats fashion

 - 23:40 - Found:Re - Hotel and Gallery

 - 27:01 - Arizona "Art Boutique Hotel" for all facets of art

 - 28:35 - Not pretentious, not fussy, just beautiful art

 - 29:08 - "Industrial Chic" and good lighting!

 - 31:10 - "Cracking the egg" on in-fill development

 - 32:38 - Roosevelt Action Association in response to 1-10 expansion

 - 33:35 - Margaret T. Hance Park, the most invisible park in the country

 - 34:12 - "The Golden Spike" joins East and West freeways

 - 35:48 - Tim listens (and repeats!)

 - 36:35 - "Creativity means generating ideas, good design pays for itself"

 - 37:35 - "Everything we really care about is based on a story"

 - 38:10 - Tim tells a story about his grandfather

 - 39:10 - Tim will return in "Drought Talk"

Jun 17, 202239:17
Episode #51: Mona Lisa Eats Cake

Episode #51: Mona Lisa Eats Cake

Themes

 - Deep dig into Minecraft

 - Plumber shout out!

 - Multiple follow-ups

 - MET does good website!

 - People and art students suck

 - Betty Rubble

Notes

 - 00:18 - Catherine chooses coffee over Bedrock

 - 01:00 - Microsoft emails James

 - 01:30 - History of Minecraft, the original blocky world

 - 03:15 - Scripting, cross-platform, running native? What?

 - 03:55 - SubRant embraces “tech geek world”

 - 04:30 - Everything leads to “The Flintstones”

 - 05:20 - Plumber shout out! https://georgebrazilplumbingelectrical.com

 - 06:20 - Expansion tank saves the day!

 - 06:44 - Nicholas is also a “Grocery Store Superstar”!

 - 07:55 - Fake bird surveillance joke follow up https://youtu.be/l30_APBNPXg

 - 09:25 - We’re not art lawyers, but Catherine will test the waters

 - 10:00 - We’re not scientists either, so below are alternate sources

 -  - 1 - Kat Epidemiologist https://www.epidemiologistkat.com

 -  - 2 - Very Bad Wizards https://www.verybadwizards.com

 -  - 3 - Andy Does Healthy https://www.tiktok.com/@andydoeshealthy

 - 11:25 - James is a ruthless self-promoter (not)

 - 12:05 - Now here’s a really good museum website! https://www.metmuseum.org

 - 12:26 - Fly-through videos! https://www.metmuseum.org/art/online-features/met-360-project

 - 13:00 - “Fake” follow-up about curator responsibility

 - 14:45 - Mona Lisa eats cake https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/05/mona-lisa-attacked-at-louvre-museum-by-vandal-with-patisserie

 - 16:40 - Breaking News: “People suck”

 - 17:12 - James makes a case for cannibalism

 - 17:50 - Groceries going MIA

 - 18:58 - Forget Durango, just camp in San Francisco

 - 21:15 - Details are important (and interesting)

 - 22:10 - Marks of the mono print

 - 23:26 - Intaglio embarrassment: Catherine gets mocked in art class

 - 25:17 - Garbage torso painting is difficult because it’s garbage!

 - 26:20 - Education theory according to James

 - 26:55 - Betty Rubble

 - 27:25 - At least the plumbers are listening!

Jun 10, 202227:33
Episode #50: "Fake-squiat"

Episode #50: "Fake-squiat"

SHOW TOPICS
  • Two show announcements!
  • Storage Whores
  • We see dead people
SHOW NOTES
  • 00:10 - Merchandise but no Anniversary Show
  • 01:10 - James and Catherine are aliens
  • 01:25 - New SubRant TikTok!
  • 01:45 - Online video editing software
  • 02:30 - Fake til proven Basquiat?
  • 03:05 - "Chain of Custody" and "Players"
    • Basquiat - (deceased) Artist
    • Larry Gagosian - Art dealer
    • Thad Mumford - (deceased) Screenwriter, 1st owner
    • Storage Unit -Unpaid x30 years
    • William Force - Art/antiquities dealer, 2nd owner
    • Lee Mangan - Retired salesman, 2nd owner
    • Pierce O'Donnell - Lawyer, purchased interest in 6/25 pieces
    • "Mumford's Poem" - Taped on dot-matrix printer paper
    • Lindon Leader - Brand expert, FedEx logo designer
    • Diego Cortez - (deceased) Basquiat Estate Authentication Committee (deceased - disbanded 2012) member
    • Jordanna Moore Saggese - Author "Reading Basquiat: Exploring Ambivalence in American Art".
    • Aaron De Groft - Director & CEO, Orlando Museum of Art
    • Cynthia Brumback - Board Chair, Orlando Museum of Art
  • 06:50 - Trying hard for that "place in time"
  • 07:30 - "One Last Heist" coming soon to a theatre near you! Or, "Ocean's Fail"
  • 09:05 - Chasing the antiquity dragon
  • 10:30 - Perusing the "Cardboard Collection" (video)
  • 11:30 - Provenance (and asking questions) is "off-limits" in Orlando
  • 12:34 - "Sometimes, you shouldn't attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence"
  • 13:30 - Orlando, unhinged!
  • 14:15 - Traumatically trapped in Orlando elevator!
  • 14:52 - "Heroes and Monsters" - John Michel Basquiat
  • 15:40 - A "stooge" for with good intentions, or just a stooge?
  • 16:45 - James has a list of critiques
  • 18:02 - Just say "these works may or may not be authentic"
  • 18:21 - Having fun? Spending money? Who cares if it's real or not!
  • 19:00 - Back to the "in-the-style-adjacent" artwork
  • 20:30 - Achieving layering within a "visual collage"
  • 21:00 - Deconstructing Basquiat, again!
  • 23:03 - It's ghoulish to use dead people to authenticate your fakes
  • 24:55 - The Mystery of the 1994 FedEx Logo
  • 27:05 - "Handwriting analysis and poems don't authenticate artworks"
  • 28:20 - Back to Banksy's Instagram archive and end
Jun 03, 202229:03
Episode #49: A Boring Podcast

Episode #49: A Boring Podcast

SHOW TOPICS

 - The science of boredom. So bad we had to do it twice.

SHOW NOTES

 - 00:10 - Take 2

 - 00:45 - Less you know & clueless Joe

 - 01:05 - Spotify, if you're listening!

 - 01:52 - "Blinded me with (bad) science (journalism)"

 - 03:15 - Warning: No "Life Coach" On Duty

 - 03:45 - Scientific fluff piece?

 - 04:20 - Let's get into it!

 - 05:07 - Emotional hyperbole

 - 06:17 - Boredom seems correctable

 - 07:03 - Please define!

 - 08:47 - Categorizing boring

 - 09:27 - Catherine's studies cemented crazy!

 - 09:48 - Opinion about assumption isn't science

 - 11:06 - James has a sleep hobby

 - 12:27 - Buzzing outta boredom

 - 13:47 - "Excruciating" not proven

 - 14:32 - "It's all hypothetical"

 - 15:27 - Hypothetically, artists are interesting?

 - 16:02 - "Who feels more deeply than the artist?"

 - 17:05 - The simple wisdom of Von Tilburg!

 - 17:42 - Let them talk!

 - 19:01 - Reframe the lie?

 - 20:26 - Shameless SubRant sticker plug

 - 20:37 - Spotify, are you listening yet?

 - 21:17 - How to be left alone at a party!

 - 22:50 - James is bored and out!

May 31, 202223:06
Episode #48: Let Them Eat Koi!

Episode #48: Let Them Eat Koi!

SHOW TOPICS

 - Leaving Facebook, again!

 - Warhol stole our colors

 - Drought is real

 - "The Sugar Shack", Ernie Barns

 - Barns, Wyeth, Rockwell, Holyfield

 - Sugar Shack vs The Mona Lisa

 - Doesn't matter what is real

 - Stupid or boring, both!

SHOW NOTES

 - 00:07 - Cookies and podcasts don't mix

 - 00:55 - 72hrs of Facebook is enough!

 - 02:05 - "Faking" a breach for a phone number?

 - 03:30 - James plays "chicken" with Instagram, and wins!

 - 04:05 - Panic de-activation

 - 04:55 - They know what you did last summer

 - 06:02 - Black and white and mostly people I don't know

 - 08:30 - Artist name correction: "One Beach Plastic", Richard and Judith Lang

 - 09:25 - Ozzie Osborn is alive, but James remain unconvinced (or maybe just doesn't care)

 - 09:50 - Our opinions are not legal advice AND neither of us are lawyers!

 - 10:15 - Warhol' and SubRant's common-color-ground

 - 10:55 - Just get a real camera!

 - 11:57 - What is a "Super Market Star"? Catherine is.

 - 12:45 - Drought of content about a drought

 - 13:55 - Calabasas Koi

 - 14:45 - Wealth and the American "Porpoise"

 - 16:45 - Symbiotic relationship between rich people and big goldfish explained

 - 17:11 - "Let them eat koi!"

 - 17:50 - Good Times! Another art auction, another $15,000,000!

 - 18:20 - "The Sugar Shack", by Ernie Barns

 - 19:07 - He fills the canvas with movement!

 - 19:46 - "Country Ride" 1982 reminiscent but not derivative of Wyeth

 - 21:35 - Barnes: "abstraction not exaggeration"

 - 22:20 - Similar to Rockwell, in that they are both illustrators of ideas

 - 24:21 - John Holyfield

 - 25:03 - Back to Warhol, it's just a t-shirt

 - 25:30 - "The Sugar Shack" vs. "Mona Lisa"

 - 26:30 - We're not meat bags, we're a simulation

 - 28:37 - Do you prefer stupid or boring?

 - 29:26 - Twitter poll fail

 - 30:15 - Go wash your car

May 27, 202230:15
Episode #47: Micro-Plastics

Episode #47: Micro-Plastics

SHOW TOPICS

 - Anniversary Interrupted

 - No Fun With Migraines

 - Zooming In Pajamas

 - Everything Is Garbage

 - Micro-plastic in the blood

 - Pink Ball, Blue Ball

 - Trashing Art

SHOW NOTES

 - 00:20 - "Spot on" co-host forgets SubRant anniversary

 - 01:30 - Other co-host forgets about Leap Year

 - 02:10 - James crushes migraine for sake of podcast

 - 05:00 - Airport pajama fashion

 - 05:47 - Reviving Facebook

 - 06:35 - "Zero-sum" upgrade or princess fantasy?

 - 08:57 - "You got a window, open it"

 - 10:15 - Plastic garbage obsession

 - 11:00 - Misinterpreting micro-plastics

 - 12:00 - Forgoing a Lego blood clot

 - 12:45 - Vegetarian siting on dead cow worries about plastic toothpaste

 - 13:40 - Just waiting to be discovered!

 - 14:04 - 'Blue Balls' destroy humanity

 - 15:17 - "One word: plastics" (The Graduate, 1967)

 - 16:20 - Plastic saturation limit

 - 16:45 - Catherine's savage mercury moment

 - 17:41 - Talking strangers at the grocery strangers and palpating tomatoes

 - 18:45 - Take-out plastic overwhelms studio space

 - 19:58 - Plastic pollution art

 - 21:30 - Don't divert, use real trash! "Bristol Whales" by Sue Lipscombe

 - 22:25 - My bags have been a tapestry "Bridge" and "Ocean of Plastic" by Dianna Cohen

 - 22:50 - Consuming chips for art

 - 23:32 - Colorful bottle top rainbow trash "One Beach Plastic" by Richard and Judith Lang

 - 24:22 - Infinitely sustainable materials?

 - 25:02 - Compressing into nature "Plastic Planet" by Calder Kamin

 - 26:07 - Introducing "Tik-Toad"

 - 26:34 - James has a favorite!

 - 27:02 - The Great Lakes palette

 - 28:48 - Podcast of imperfection

 - 29:02 - "What is art? Listen and you still won't know!"

 - 30:12 - "I good think too"!

May 20, 202230:14
Episode #46: (Over) Selling Warhol

Episode #46: (Over) Selling Warhol

SHOW TOPICS

 - Conspiracies are for the birds

 - Wearable art?

 - If I made a TikTok

 - (Over) Selling Warhol

 - Gratuitous BTS reference

 - Tricycles can hurt you

SHOW NOTES

 - 00:30 - Pivot followup: Shadowcat is a trail bike

 - 02:00 - $7700 of fun

 - 02:30 - Instagram followup: James is a hypocrite

 - 03:15 - Black and white and square and mostly cat

 - 04:00 - Podcast birds (aren't real)

 - 05:00 - No birds in the hood?

 - 06:00 - "Hit piece" gets tarred and feathered

 - 06:40 - All conspiracies should be this much fun!

 - 08:00 - Catherine gets concerned

 - 08:35 - "Are you referring to bird drone surveillance?"

 - 09:25 - The internet raised him good

 - 10:15 - Listener provides content! Thanks Jay!

 - 11:00 - Old Masters and altered sleeves

 - 12:08 - Who called her an old lady?

 - 13:00 - If the jacket fits

 - 13:35 - The real crime is calling it "art"

 - 14:35 - Bed under a "Starry Night"

 - 15:00 - Spitballing a TikTok series

 - 15:44 - (Over) Selling a Warhol

 - 16:35 - James drops his Warhol cringe, just this once

 - 17:30 - Marilyn v. Andy AKA "Iconic v. Iconic"

 - 19:15 - "Shot Sage Blue Marilyn" captures the 1960's

 - 20:35 - Shoutout to Phoenix Art Museum

 - 21:20 - Is it OK to film art and them post it?

 - 21:55 - BTS adjacent "Rkive art vibe"

 - 23:45 - Second tricycle childhood?

 - 27:25 - Turning, tipping, crashing, and freaking out. Thanks Trike!

 - 27:50 - Ozzie Osborne is alive!

 - 29:00 - PSA: Slow your 3-wheel roll

 - 29:45 - James was wrong

May 13, 202229:53
Episode #45: DJ Leary: Take Two

Episode #45: DJ Leary: Take Two

SHOW TOPICS

 - Writer DJ Leary discusses art, poetry, prose, and next steps on his creative journey.

SHOW NOTES

 - 00:12 - DJ "SubRants" again!

 - 02:00 - Pandemic apartment good for writing

 - 02:50 - Laundry basket anxiety attack

 - 04:00 - Poems, stories, Pivot Cycles commercial

 - 04:20 - DJ's Pivot Shadowcat Ad

 - 08:20 - "4 Minutes Later" (James bike-nerds out)

 - 09:50 - No more training wheels, ever!

 - 11:15 - Listen to the neighborhood ambiance

 - 12:00 - "DC Rat Mob" (actual rodents, not politicians)

 - 14:08 - Bethesda v. Scottsdale and a tattoo artist's floor

 - 16:20 - Bird loudly joins podcast

 - 17:00 - What DJ will and won't miss about Phoenix

 - 19:20 - Phoenix expensive, friends moving on

 - 20:30 - One rodeo is enough for a lifetime

 - 21:00 - Surprise, DC is political!

 - 22:30 - Poems for "Tuckle"

 - 23:13 - Cocaine free coffee beans

 - 24:15 - No "swerving right" for easy money?

 - 26:00 - Writers needed (in Thailand?)

 - 27:15 - Fiverr and the "gig economy"

 - 29:15 - Motivated through authentic interaction

 - 32:18 - Instagram as "poetry archive"

 - 33:30 - DJ is a tattoo!

 - 35:30 - Being an artist is hard work

 - 38:40 - Screaming into the Twitter void

 - 41:04 - Instagram pay dirt

 - 43:20 - Next steps for prose over poetry

 - 44:50 - Think you're good at what you do? You're not!

 - 47:45 - Catchy, but played out

 - 49:00 - Practice makes better

 - 50:25 - DJ and a typewriter

 - 52:00 - San Diego and DC give "great busk"

 - 53:03 - Shout out to The Smithsonian

 - 54:05 - DJ recites a poem

May 06, 202256:10
Episode #44: Catherine Files Her Nails

Episode #44: Catherine Files Her Nails

SHOW TOPICS

 - Forgetful U.S. healthcare system

 - Tattooing Phoenix

 - Discoveries in weird places

 - SubRant social media

 - (Too) Hot Phoenix real estate

 - Art intersection

 - Gentrification is disorienting (for Catherine)

SHOW NOTES

 - 00:05 - SubRant is hostile, but it's not work

 - 01:45 - James is unrecognizable

 - 02:45 - Curious canine cat food caper!

 - 04:50 - Tattoos, but where (to get one)?

 - 05:26 - Forehead or nowhere!

 - 06:20 - Will Catherine really get tattoos?

 - 08:00 - James and "left breast Jimin"

 - 09:03 - Moving on...

 - 09:10 - Digging Anat, the "Goddess of Everything"

 - 09:50 - Destination: Gaza, but back away from my head!

 - 11:15 - Hidden basements and the boxes therein

 - 13:15 - Attention (13 listeners): SubRant SubReddit coming!

 - 14:36 - James is "way serious"

 - 14:50 - Better late than never! SubRant social media!

 - -  Instagram: SubRant Podcast

 -  - Twitter: @SubRantPodcast

 - 15:10 - Messing with realtors!

 - 15:50 - "Housing Fodder and Unaffordable Phoenix"

 - 16:38 - All James needs is weather, trails, Costco

 - 17:21 - Redefining "exponential" and exerting male privilege

 - 18:50 - Compelling content as Catherine files her nails

 - 20:20 - More money than sense, but not climate refugees

 - 21:55 - Least sustainable city? Let's move there!

 - 22:45 - Intersection Art

 - 24:28 - Too much ado about Trompe-l'oeil

 - 25:20 - Phoenix murals, the 80 seconds of art this week

 - 26:00 - Disorientation in the Arts District

 - 27:43 - Shipping containers and hip hop

 - 29:53 - Lovin' the urban chic vibe

 - 31:15 - Putting a pin in "Art on the Street"

Apr 29, 202231:22
Episode #43: Pop Art and other Space Junk

Episode #43: Pop Art and other Space Junk

SHOW TOPICS

 - Creativity

 - Pop art and other space junk

 - Douchebag of the week

 - Library books and censorship

 - Netflix

SHOW NOTES

 - 00:10 - James got news, but show must go on!

 - 00:45 - 100 Days of Creativity Project

 - 02:15 - Instagram accounts - paintings & cats?

 - 02:55 - "To the moon, Jeff Koons!"

 - 03:42 - Space, the final frontier for the rich and egoic (which is a word)

 - 05:00 - If this were only a joke

 - 07:20 - Got space junk? Hire the banana guy!

 - 08:31 - Writer award goes to...

 - 09:22 - James critiques "Death Becomes Her" because he is a zombie

 - 09:45 - Catherine gets triggered by book reviewer

 - 10:48 - Let librarians library!

 - 11:30 - No common sense, people suck, let's stay home

 - 13:00 - Can someone else's preferences define our discomfort?

 - 14:48 - Hyperbole for hyperbole

 - 15:58 - We're already on that slippery slope

 - 17:15 - Netflix, just chill

 - 19:24 - Prices up, content down, Star Trek gone

 - 21:50 - Nobody wants advertising!

 - 22:25 - James reminisces, DVDs to streaming

 - 23:54 - Breaking down the niches

 - 25:37 - Catherine just wants to watch everything!

 - 27:30 - High prices for crap?

 - 28:59 - SubRant fever dreams get cancelled

Apr 22, 202229:17
Episode #42: Protest on Aisle 7

Episode #42: Protest on Aisle 7

SHOW TOPICS

 - UNESCO makes a holiday

 - "Professional" artist?

 - Billionaires and philanthropy (or the lack there of)

 - Trashing Amazon

 - Artistic activism

 - Wearing Rembrandt

 - Math-nerd moment

SHOW NOTES

 - 00:15 - "World Art Day" is every day

 - 01:20 - What is a profession really?

 - 02:07 - Artists just don't get paid!

 - 02:58 - Show note refund / RISD with an extra "E"

 - 04:20 - MacKenzie Scott is a generous "22%-er"

 - 05:10 - Critiquing a billionaire short list

 - 06:54 - "...and the douche-bag is..."

 - 07:50 - Turned off by Amazon

 - 09:30 - Dumpster diving proves a point

 - 10:30 - A new take on "sticker shock", but is it art?

 - 12:00 - Alexandra Skochilenko "awaiting trial" for creative protest

 - 12:36 - Seems like yarn graffiti

 - 14:15 - Representative Cori Bush is a "positivist"?

 - 16:30 - Creativity, courage and blank signs!

 - 17:45 - Now that's "wearable art"!

 - 19:14 - Hands down, it's a an interesting bracelet!

 - 20:00 - Cooper Hewitt snags original, but there were 10!

 - 21:40 - "Golden Ratio" is not just for nerds

 - 22:05 - Fibonacci sequence obsession

 - 24:00 - Random quote not previously covered

 - 24:28 - "Mini-Madoff" and out!

Apr 15, 202224:29
Episode #41: NFM: Non Fungible Mushroom

Episode #41: NFM: Non Fungible Mushroom

SHOW TOPICS

 - Must leave home

 - Mushrooms are everywhere

 - Shoutout to Arizona LD 2 Democrats!

 - Bedazzling garbage

 - Don't feed the birds

 - Shoulda Dropped Out of RISD

SHOW NOTES

 - 00:05 - Time for Catherine to leave the house

 - 01:50 - No camping for James

 - 02:39 - Fungus objection

 - 03:20 - Human brain: art project on mushrooms!

 - 04:55 - Portobello prose?

 - 06:12 - "Annoyingly pretentiously tedious"

 - 08:00 - Organic molded work

 - 09:20 - Abandon crypto for mushrooms

 - 11:00 - "Inter-species" collaboration in a Phoenix art space

 - 12:00 - After our first podcast it was all downhill

 - 12:55 - Links for Arizona LD 2 Democrats running for state legislature

 - Rep. Judy Schwiebert: TwitterFacebookwebsite, and newsletter

 - Jeanne Casteen for LD2 State Senate: websiteFacebookTwitter, and Instagram

 - LD2 Dems:  websitenewslettermonthly meetingFacebook, and Twitter

 - 13:05 - Weekly Events to support AZ LD 2

 - Wednesday Phonebank from 5-7

 - Saturday Canvassing from 10-12:30

 - Saturday Phonebank from 3-5

 - Sunday Canvassing every other week from 2:30-5:00

 - Anytime Phonebank daily from 9am-7pm. (You must be trained before doing this)

 - 14:10 - Cheetos and crystals

 - 17:00 - "Swarovski-lying" garbage for consumerism

 - 18:00 - Everyone, play with your food!

 - 19:17 - Ignore Catherine and her fever dreams

 - 20:25 - James uncovers the geodesic mystery

 - 21:30 - Hemp "legos" for houses

 - 23:15 - Cheeto-sphere vs. peanut butter pinecone

 - 24:07 - "Sam, have you seen Americans?"

 - 25:50 - James sounds like a hippie

 - 26:31 - Sam (and James) went to RISD

 - 27:27 - Do a "real power move", drop out!

 - 28:24 - This is the worst podcast on the planet

Apr 08, 202228:24
Episode #40: Art & Oligarchs

Episode #40: Art & Oligarchs

SHOW TOPICS

 - Words matter

 - Travel and Catherine don't mix

 - Oligarchs and art

 - Saving art in times of war

 - Good Grammy

SHOW NOTES

 - 00:07 - "Hanging out" is not dating, and words matter!

 - 01:05 - James berates Catherine's (lack of) travel

 - 01:20 - Pissing on the Midwest

 - 02:25 - Exploring Hong Kong before Google maps

 - 04:15 - "It's the oligarchs' (art) world, we just paint in it?"

 - 05:35 - Guardians of ambiguity

 - 06:45 - Hold that auction!

 - 08:30 - Gatekeepers of moral responsibility?

 - 10:00 - Catherine mistakes a soccer team for a neighborhood in New York

 - 11:00 - The global presence of Philips (not light bulbs)

 - 11:45 - James defines "art washing"

 - 13:20 - Don't collude with bad guys

 - 14:05 - There are no cushions, even for art

 - 15:13 - Dr. Evil was not evil or effective

 - 15:30 - Disclosure laws needed, case closed

 - 17:25 - Keeping collecting safe in "The Garage"

 - 18:25 - Even ugly history repeats itself

 - 19:50 - Destroying art erases humanity's connections

 - 21:45 - Prohibiting "wanton destruction" since 1899

 - 23:35 - Drunk dialing an Italian article that will not be shared here

 - 24:50 - James is (not) a word criminal

 - 25:37 - The Grammys, BTS, President Volodymyr Zelensky

 - 26:45 - Make your own damn art!

 - 27:06 - Stop the war!

Apr 04, 202227:06
Episode #39: Fake Banksy

Episode #39: Fake Banksy

SHOW TOPICS

 - Suspicions social media ads

 - Fake Banksy shows

 - Dissecting sleazy

 - Just go to Banksy

SHOW NOTES

 - 00:05 - Suspicious ads

 - 00:50 - Banksy "Show" keeps showing up, but not at Phoenix Art Museum

 - 03:00 - Give info to get info? Nope.

 - 03:45 - Car dealership urban legend

 - 04:30 - Internet sleuth uncovers a "Turkey"

 - 05:05 - Banksy says "Nope"

 - 05:18 - Another "not Banksy approved" scenario

 - 06:40 - What do you see? Refunds!

 - 07:44 - No chisels, but "high value" work, "according to the company"

 - 09:20 - Siding with the artist is the "silver lining"

 - 09:54 - Go to Banksy to view Banksy, he shares!

 - 11:20 - "The public doesn't have a right to anything"

 - 12:20 - No good argument for "sleazy", but not a PSA

 - 14:10 - "Vibing" with Diego Rivera's brushstrokes

 - 15:20 - Banksy's message is more concise than this discussion

 - 15:48 - Just follow Banksy on Instagram

 - 16:40 - Please don't steal my wall

 - 17:20 - Banksy does your homework!

 - 18:00 - Vermeer didn't give consent, yet...

 - 18:30 - "The better the show, the less you pay"

Mar 28, 202218:47
Episode #38: Laptop Archaeology

Episode #38: Laptop Archaeology

 - 00:05 - Hello, it's 2021 calling!

 - 00:40 - "Mask-hole", unchained

 - 03:00 - "Phone-holes" vs James

 - 04:05 - James explains the "Slur of Karen"

 - 05:00 - Crushing on Betty Rubble and Mary Ann

 - 05:30 - "Gilligan's Island", the last great TV show

 - 06:20 - The horrors of re-watching 80s-90s TV

 - 07:50 - Everything after the "Miami Vice" pilot was crap

 - 08:30 - Skewed media degrades morale, even on the battlefield

 - 10:15 - TikTok's "Hypo Hysterical History" covered it first!

 - 11:50 - Media's lack of good analysis is failing us

 - 13:10 - Be selective with your social media

 - 14:08 - "Beau of the Fifth Column" on YouTube provides thoughtful content

 - 15:50 - Speaking of laptop art!

 - 16:30 - Harry Styles click-bait

 - 18:00 - Art, modern archaeology, and psychotic bursts of emotion

 - 20:00 - Laptop stickers: "all-in" or a minimalist?

 - 22:11 - Dickies is not street wear

 - 23:00 - Laptops: Swiss Army knife or portal to your existence?

 - 26:15 - Computers are more important than cars

 - 27:33 - James is (not) a hothead

Mar 25, 202229:08
Episode #37: The Art of Goblining

Episode #37: The Art of Goblining

SHOW TOPICS

 - Balloons!

 - iPhone addiction

 - Desert flooding

 - Goblin-mode?

 - Quasi-political rant

 - Locksmith saves the family!

SHOW NOTES

 - 00:45 - Balloon bouquet for all occasions!

 - 01:30 - Catherine late to podcast, again

 - 02:15 - Step away from the iPhone!

 - 04:15 - "The Podcast Record Of Our Lives"

 - 05:30 - Rocks in her yard, rocks in her head

 - 07:00 - Catherine floods Phoenix, but this content is sheer drought

 - 08:10 - Goblins trigger James

 - 09:20 - "No aesthetic" is an aesthetic

 - 11:00 - American short attention span makes everything ancient history

 - 11:53 - "It's always something...every day is a crazy day!"

 - 12:15 - Who's onboard with the logical progression to nihilism?

 - 13:20 - A bad case of cosplay

 - 14:20 - Break-up couch and 4 days of ice cream

 - 15:05 - This deep dive is really too much

 - 16:30 - Acceptance, resignation, or 3 pairs of yoga pants?

 - 18:30 - Just don't be a goblin, ok?

 - 19:15 — Good things happen!

 - 20:00 - James makes a case for "Orc-Mode"

 - 20:30 - So much for the podcast about art!

 - 21:15 - USA has many blessings

 - 22:30 - Double-edged sword of abundance

 - 24:20 - Constitutional "gentleman's agreement"

 - 24:44 - America only works if we all agree to the rules

 - 26:19 - Goblin mode leads to destruction!

 - 26:30 - Failed locks but Jarod saves the day!

 - 27:55 - Catherine was a "party gurl"!

 - 29:28 - There goes our "G-rating"

 - 30:45 - Intellectual level dropped so we need to stop

Mar 18, 202230:53
Episode #36: Lies, Lies, Lies

Episode #36: Lies, Lies, Lies

SHOW TOPICS

 - Solar panels

 - This old house

 - Lies, lies, lies

 - Housing rant

 - Learning Korean

 - CDs and missing the 1990s

SHOW NOTES

 - 00:15 - James's invisible solar panels

 - 01:00 - Catherine's infrastructure meltdown

 - 02:20 - Monetizing the sun

 - 03:54 - Energy efficiency goodie box

 - 04:50 - Lying is bad, but...

 - 06:00 - Morality: osmosis or reason?

 - 08:00 - Just tell me "it's OK"!

 - 08:40 - Tweets et cetera

 - 09:45 - Turn down the amplifier already!

 - 11:53 - Bob's truth conquers a bridge!

 - 13:25 - Freedom through candor

 - 14:20 - Who has the power?

 - 14:45 - "Candorous" is now a word

 - 16:00 - House CEO buys $900 toilet

 - 18:30 - Arizona is too boring to be this expensive

 - 20:05 - Ignoring the housing shortage is not helpful

 - 20:55 - Now for some good news! Learning Korean!

 - 21:25 - Two minutes of rambling...

 - 23:05 - "Talk To Me In Korean" books arrived fast!

 - 24:15 - New alphabet, Hangul, intimidation, drawing faces

 - 24:40 - Migraines, guitar, and Spanish

 - 26:00 - All musical rabbit holes lead to BTS (for Catherine)

 - 27:30 - Buying CDs is back!

 - 29:00 - James will always have "The Fifth Element"

 - 31:05 - Embracing analogue and other 1990s nostalgia

 - 32:22 - Design the world that you want to live in!

Mar 11, 202232:31